Here is my review of the HMZ-T1. First off I drove to the nearest place to demo it about 3 hrs. This is written on my phone on the way back since my gf is driving so bare with the spelling mistakes. This review anwsers all the questions I had about the device and detailed features of when hooked via hdmi to a gaming laptop. When i placed the device on my head, and adjusted it according to the manufacturers instructions, it was a lot heavier than i expected. This device will either be heavy on your nose or on your forehead. tested it with NFS, starcraft 2, and team fortress 2 for about an hour by attaching to the hmz-t1 via hdmi as hdmi is the only way to connect to the device. So once connected the windows screen went to 720p. On this screen I adjusted the eye width dongle until the centered was focused. This is when I noticed the second flaw of the device; you cannot focus the center and the corners at the same time, you will only be able to focus one. This leads me to my first game, starcraft 2. When I booted it up it said 1080p in the top corner and it played this and all games at 1080p. There were no noticable disadvantages at this resolution. So in the game I had noticed the incredible colors and blacks, and the motion was extremelysmooth. Even though it looked nice, this game is unplayable using this device, since the edges started getting blurry at the minimap and unit build sections. Also, i should mention that the device does not make the screen seem huge, it honestly did not seem larger than my 25 inch monitor at home from 3 ft away. I went in there expecting an imax experience and the device falls very far from that. Also dont expect total immersion, any ambient light will come in through the top and bottem. So, this device will not be playable for any Rts. So i took the device off and my gf told me that people were staring at me quite a bit, i am guessing the gaming laptop didnt make me look any cooler. Screw them onto the next game, a sim called nfs shift. Ok this device worked very well for this game, the motion was smooth and the colors were great. since you dont look in the corners for detail it was great. Last game was portal 2 where the game ran great again. This thing works great for sim, fps games and movies but the device will hurt your head after a few hours, i started to get a headache after the 1 hr i spent there. yes, 1 hr but i let some kids play on it too. I also played some music on it and although the earpieces felt cheap, the sound was good and had some nice bass. Now, will I buy it and should you? The anwser is sadly no. Your money will be better spent on a 27 inch 3d monitor. The size will be the same, there will be no blurry edges, and your head will not start to hurt. The only advantage to this is that it is slightly more portable, has better 3d and colors. Oh ya, I forgot to talk about the 3d. it is pretty good in that it has nice depth and no crosstalk, but do things jump far out where it can feel like it is right in front of you? No. It is just like seeing it on a larger 3d tv. Anyway I hope you like my review, i tried to be as unbiased as possible.
Justin
Justin
